Terms and Conditions of Use

Effective Date: May 28, 2018

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE (these “Terms”) CAREFULLY. These Terms set forth the legally binding terms and conditions that govern your access to and use of the website (as defined below) and the services (as defined below). By accessing or using the website or the services, you are accepting these Terms and our privacy policy which is incorporated into the terms (on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent), and you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these Terms (on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent). you may not access or use the website or accept theSE Terms if you are not at least 18 years old. If you do not agree with all of the provisions of these Terms, do not access and/or use the website.

These terms require the use of arbitration on an individual basis to resolve disputes, rather than jury trials or class actions, and also limit the remedies available to you in the event of a dispute.

The website located at emilyjourney.com (the “Site”) is a copyrighted work belonging to WP Artisans. (collectively referred to herein as “WP Artisans,” “emilyjourney.com,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). These Terms govern all use of the Site and all content, services and products available on or delivered through the Site.

The Site is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and all other operating rules, policies, and procedures that may be published and changed from time to time on the Site by us (collectively, the “Agreement”). Any subsequent changes by us to the Site (including, without limitation, the release of new programs, tools, or resources) shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion and at any time, to amend, modify or replace any part of the Agreement. It is your responsibility to check the Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Site following the posting of any changes to the Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes.

The Agreement is a legally binding agreement between you and us so please read the Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Site. By accessing or using any part of the Site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of the Agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of the Agreement, then you may not access or use any part of the Site. If these Terms are considered an offer by us, acceptance is expressly limited to the terms and provisions of the Agreement.

THE SERVICES

We provide the following services through the Site (collectively, the “Services”): WP Artisans is a WordPress support and social media management company. WP Artisans provides WordPress training for business owners and individuals with WordPress websites and social media management for independent businesses.

FEES AND REFUND POLICY

We provide the Services at the range rates listed on the Site, which are incorporated herein by reference. All amounts are due and payable in accordance with our terms of payment contained in our Membership Agreement.

We do not provide refunds for unused membership hours. Any billing discrepancies must be brought to our attention within 90 days.

USE OF THE SITE

Eligibility. We will only knowingly provide the Site and Services to parties that can lawfully enter into and form contracts under applicable law. The Site is not for children under the age of 18 and any such use is prohibited.

Compliance with the Agreement and Applicable Law. You acknowledge and agree that (i) your use of the Site and the Services shall be in strict accordance with the Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitation, any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city or other governmental jurisdiction, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and (ii) your use of the Site or the Services will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

Intellectual Property and Trademarks. You acknowledge and agree that we are the sole owner of all right, title and interest in the Site and any and all Intellectual Property (as defined below) related thereto or to the Services. We reserve all rights in and to any and all Intellectual Property, and in the event that any such rights vest in you, the entity you represent or any of your respective representatives, you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally assign, and shall cause such entity and all such representatives to irrevocably and unconditionally assign, to us all such rights. No right, license or transfer of ownership of any Intellectual Property is granted or shall be granted by implication. All rights, licenses and transfers of ownership (if any) are granted only as expressly provided in the Agreement.

“Intellectual Property” means, with respect to WP Artisans (a) all inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice), all improvements thereto, and all patents, patent applications and patent disclosures filed in any jurisdiction, together with all reissuances, continuations, divisionals, continuations-in-part, revisions, extensions and reexaminations thereof; (b) all trademarks, service marks, trade dress and design marks (including, without limitation, domain names, uniform resource locators, logos and slogans), including all goodwill associated therewith, and all applications, registrations and renewals in connection therewith; (c) all works of authorship and other copyrightable works and all copyrights subsisting under the applicable laws of any jurisdiction and all application, registrations and renewals in connection therewith; and (d) all trade secrets (including, without limitation, ideas, research and development, know-how, formulas, compositions, business practices, object code, source code, software, hardware, systems, techniques, tools, solutions, processes, procedures, methods, methodologies, applications, day-to-day business operations, technical data, designs, drawings, specifications, customer, vendor or supplier lists, pricing, cost and financial information, and business and marketing plans and proposals). For the avoidance of doubt, Intellectual Property includes any and all additions, modifications, derivative works and improvements thereto.

You may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Site or the Services.

If you provide us with any feedback, testimonials, suggestions or comments regarding the Site or the Services (collectively, “Feedback”), you hereby assign to us all rights in such Feedback and agree that we shall have the right to use and fully exploit such Feedback and related information in any manner that we deem appropriate in accordance with applicable law. We will treat any Feedback that you provide to us as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not submit to us any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential or proprietary. We obtain your/the user’s consent in accordance with our Privacy Policy prior to posting and Feedback on a public area of the Site.

The name “WP Artisans,” “emilyjourney.com, “our logo and any of our slogans are trademarks and service marks of WP Artisans. The use of any other trademark or service mark is not authorized by, sponsored by or associated with us and is for purposes of description and identification only. You shall not use, duplicate, distribute, modify, reproduce, transmit or take any other action with respect to our trademarks or service marks without our express prior written consent.

Limited License. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Site and the Services solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Authorized Representative. If an individual is accessing or using the Site or the Services on behalf of any entity, such individual represents and warrants that he or she is an authorized representative of such entity with the full legal power and authority to bind such entity to the Agreement and enter into the Agreement on behalf of such entity.

RESTRICTIONS ON USE

Except as explicitly authorized by the Agreement or with our prior written consent, you shall not (i) distribute, transmit, license, rent, sell, lease, transfer, assign, host or otherwise commercially exploit the Site or the Services, in each case and any Intellectual Property related thereto, whether in whole or in part; (ii) modify, copy, reproduce, translate, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt in any way to reconstruct or discover the source code for the Site or any Intellectual Property related thereto; or (iii) access or use the Site or the Services to build a similar or competitive website, product, mobile application, or service.

You must comply with any technical restrictions on the Site or the Services that allow you to access or use the Site or the Services only in certain ways. Unless otherwise indicated, any future modification or other addition to the functionality of the Site or the Services shall be subject to the Agreement. All copyright and other proprietary notices on the Site and the Services must be retained on all copies thereof.

You shall not use the Site or the Services to take any action, or assist others in taking any action, that (i) is unlawful, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, defamatory, libelous or fraudulent, (ii) violates the personal privacy rights of others, (iii) victimizes, harasses, degrades or intimidates any individual or group of individuals, (iv) constitutes an attempt to impersonate any person or entity, (v) is intended to omit, delete, forge or misrepresent information, (vi) is intended to cloak the identity or contact information of you or others, (vii) infringes upon or misappropriates any intellectual property of any third party, (viii) interferes with or disrupts access to or use of the Site or the Services by us or others, (ix) results in the disclosure of personal, confidential, or insider information, or (x) involves the use of any viruses or other programs intended to interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

FRAUD

We may suspend or permanently terminate your account at any time for any reason, including, without limitation, if a suspicion arises that you engaged in any fraudulent activity in conjunction with the Site or the Services.

INFORMATION DISCLAIMERS AND USE

You are solely responsible for any information that you provide to us through the Site or in connection with the Services, and such information may not contain any viruses or other malware that may damage or interfere with the Site. You represent and warrant that your personal, contact and billing information is true, legal, accurate and non-fraudulent in all respects.

We require some personal, contact and billing information (“Personal Information”) to provide the Services. Please refer to our Privacy Policy to understant what information we collect, what we do with this information, how we share this information, and our legal basis for collecting the personal information.

SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES

Without limiting any other terms or provisions of the Agreement, if you sign in to the Site via a social networking service (an “SNS”) or otherwise use an SNS in connection with the Site or the Services, you understand and agree that we, as an agent on your behalf, may access your SNS account information and content so that such information and content are available to you in connection with your access to or use of the Site or the Services. You give us permission to access your SNS account information and content in accordance with the preceding sentence. You agree that any content that you submit to an SNS while accessing or using the Site or the Services may be stored by us at your direction and as set out in or Privacy Policy, although we do not undertake any obligation to maintain any such content.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS & ADS

The Site or the Services may contain links to third-party websites and services (including SNSs) and/or display advertisements for third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Links & Ads”). Third-Party Links & Ads are not under our control, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Links & Ads. We provide access to these Third-Party Links & Ads only as a convenience to you and do not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Links & Ads. You shall use all Third-Party Links & Ads at your own risk and should apply a suitable level of caution and discretion in doing so. When you “click” on or otherwise visit any Third-Party Links & Ads, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply, including the third party’s privacy and data gathering practices. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction in connection with such Third-Party Links & Ads.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

We have not made any representations, warranties, statements or promises in the Agreement, and you have not relied upon any such representation, warranty, statement or promise in accessing or using the Site or the Services. The Site and the Services are provided “as-is,” and we shall have no liability for any errors or omissions therein or any other aspects thereof. We hereby expressly disclaim all representations and warranties, express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike quality, and title, with respect to the Site or the Services. We do not represent or warrant that the Site or the Services will meet your requirements or that access to and use of the Site or the Services be uninterrupted, error-free or entirely secure. You will bear all risk associated with any use of the Internet or other means of data transmission by or on behalf of you, and we disclaim all responsibility and liability in connection with such use. We do not make any representations or warranties with respect to any materials, products, data, information or content provided by any third party. You acknowledge and agree that (i) data transferred to and from the Site may be done so unencrypted and over various networks, and (ii) any access to or use of the Site or the Services is done at your sole discretion and risk. To the extent we cannot disclaim any warranty as a matter of law, the scope and duration of such warranty shall be the minimum permissible under applicable law.

RELEASE AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

By accessing and using the Site and the Services, you agree not to sue or institute any cause of action or legal proceeding of any nature against us or any of our affiliates, or our or their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, licensors, licensees, successors and assigns (collectively the “Released Parties”) for, and agrees to release, acquit, forever discharge and compensate and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against, any and all costs, damages (actual, consequential, special, incidental, indirect, exemplary, punitive or otherwise), losses, liabilities, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees) of any kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed (collectively, “Damages”), arising out of, relating to, or in any way connected with your access or use of the Site or the Services. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”

IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY RELEASED PARTY BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THE AGREEMENT OR ANY ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR: (I) ANY INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OR INTERRUPTION OF USE, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR LOSS OF PROFITS, OR (II) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT FOR SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, IN EACH CASE EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR COSTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL LIABILITY OF ANY RELEASED PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE AGREEMENT OR ANY ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES EXCEED THE FEES PAID BY YOU TO US UNDER THE AGREEMENT DURING THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY. WE SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY FAILURE OR DELAY DUE TO MATTERS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING FORCE MAJEURE. THE FOREGOING SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

INDEMNIFICATION

You shall defend, indemnify, compensate, reimburse and hold harmless each Released Party, from and against any and all Damages associated with, arising out of or resulting from your access to or use of the Site or the Services, including, without limitation, (i) your breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or other term or provision of the Agreement, (ii) your negligent acts or omissions, (iii) your violation of applicable laws or regulations, and (iv) any content that your post, submits or otherwise makes available on the Site or in connection with the Service.

SEVERABILITY

If any term or provision of the Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms and provisions shall continue in full force and effect without being impaired or invalidated in any way. The parties agree to replace any invalid provision with a valid provision that most closely approximates the original intent and substance of such invalid provision.

TERMINATION

You understand and agree that we may, in our sole and absolute discretion and at any time, permanently terminate your account for any reason whatsoever. You understand and agree that we may take any one or more of these actions without prior notice to you. Should we take any of these actions, we may, in our sole and absolute discretion, immediately deactivate or delete any or all information about and concerning your account. You understand and agree that we shall not have any liability to you or any other person for any termination of your access to the Site or the Services or the removal of information concerning your account. If you violate the Agreement, we may pursue damages or any other remedies available to us, including without limitation specific performance or injunctive relief, against you in any forum we deem appropriate.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Disputes between you and us should be reported to our customer service. You can contact us by email at emily@wp-artisans.com. We will attempt to promptly and amicably resolve any such disputes.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us concerning the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the subject matter hereof. The Agreement may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of us or by the posting of a revised version by us to the Site. Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, the Agreement and any access to or use of the Site or the Services shall be governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to the conflict of laws rules thereof. All disputes of any nature related to the Agreement shall be determined by final and binding arbitration in Franklin County, Ohio before a single arbitrator. The parties shall agree on the rules and procedures to be followed in the arbitration. If the parties are unable to agree on the rules and procedures to be followed within 15 days, the arbitration shall be administered by JAMS pursuant to its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures, and the arbitrator shall apply the laws applicable in the State of Ohio (without regard to the conflict of laws rules thereof). Judgment on the arbitral award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The foregoing arbitration provisions shall not preclude either party from seeking an injunction or other provisional remedies in aid of arbitration from a court of appropriate jurisdiction. The arbitrator shall, in the arbitral award, allocate all or part of the costs of the arbitration, including the fees of the arbitrator and reasonable attorneys’ fees of the prevailing party, for payment by the non-prevailing party, and shall determine the prevailing party for this purpose. The parties further agree that (i) any claims brought by either party must be brought in such party’s individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding, and (ii) the arbitrator may not (x) consolidate more than one person’s claims, (y) otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding or (z) award class-wide relief. A waiver by any party of any term or condition of the Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under the Agreement to any party that consents to and agrees to be bound by the Agreement; we may assign our rights under the Agreement without condition. The Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about these Terms, you may contact us at emily@wp-artisans.com, and include the subject as “Attn: Legal – Terms and Conditions of Use”. Please be sure to include in your email your full name, email address, postal address, and any message.